Florian Knorn
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Florian Knorn (born December 1981 in Berlin) is a German voice artist and actor.
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[edit] Curriculum Vitae
Florian Knorn grew up in Eichwalde, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. He went to the bilingual high school Französisches Gymnasium Berlin (or Collège français) where he passed both the Abitur (German high school diploma) and the Baccalauréat (French high school diploma). In 1998/1999 he went on a student exchange year with the American Field Service (AFS) to Little River, near Christchurch, New Zealand. Due to his school and the stay in New Zealand, he speaks French and English more or less fluently.
At the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg he studied System Technologies and Engineering Cybernetics, pursuing the degree of Diplom Engineer and graduated at the end of September 2006. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in part at the TU Berlin and in part at the NUI Maynooth.
[edit] Work
[edit] Academic
His first academic thesis, a Studienarbeit, was titled Ranking and Importance in Complex Networks and written at the Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland under the supervision of Prof. Robert Shorten and Dr. Oliver Mason. Files related to the thesis can be found on the accompanying page.
He then did an internship at DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology in Böblingen near Stuttgart, Germany, working in the Vehicle System Dynamics supervised by Prof. Jens Kalkkuhl on an Active Hydro-Pneumatic Suspension (AHP), (see his internship report Modelling and control of an active hydro pneumatic suspension).
He just finished working on deliberate passing behaviour in RoboCup Four Legged League soccer robots, as part of the NUbots team at the University of Newcastle, Australia. There, he wrote his Diplomarbeit with the title Algorithm Development and Testing for Four Legged League Robot Soccer Passing and has graduated with the title of "Diplom Ingenieur" from Magdeburg.
Currently, he has started his PhD which will be partly written at the Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Ireland and the Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme, TU Berlin, Germany, supervised by both Prof. Robert Shorten and Prof. Jörg Raisch. The topic will be related to control problems in Discrte Event Systems (DES) and High troughput screening (HTS) processes.
[edit] Dubbing
As a voice artist, he borrowed his voice in various movies and tv series, such as
- Peter Pan 2 — Return to Neverland – Peter Pan
- Nói Albínói – Nói
- Gen-Y Cops – Alien
- Fear Of The Dark – Dale
- Storytelling – Scooby
- Digimon – Tai
- Leif Ericson – Leif Ericson
- Little Giants – Junior
- Le Grand Chef – Eric
He also had secondary roles and appearances in a number of other productions, such as
- Stargate SG-1 – Jack O'Neill (as teenager)
- Angel – Connor
- Ping! – Drac
- 7th Heaven – Mike Pierce
- Digimon – Tai
- Sexy Beast – Enrique
- The Tribe – Hawk
- Ship To Shore – Ralph
Over the years, he has dubbed the voices of for instance Tómas Lemarquis, Vincent Kartheiser, Sam Lee, Jeremy Lelliot, Michael Welch, Kevin Zegers or Mark Webber.
[edit] Film
As a child actor, he starred in the following productions
- Friedrichstadt-Palast, director: Klaus Überall (1988)
- Karl May, director: Klaus Überall (1990)
- Von Herz zu Herz, director: Ullrich Thein (1992)
- Das Gespenst von Flatterfels, director: Rodica Döhnert (1995)
[edit] Advertising
Besides various roles in dubbing, Florian was invited to speak in a number of advertisings, just to name a few for companies like
[edit] Trivia
- 0wn3d a BWM but sold it to a guy from eastern Europe (remeber the popes car - maybe someone is in for a big surprise soon?).
- During his stay in New Zealand, he was the first to finish Monkey Island in a caravan!
- Rumors go, that he was abducted by aliens as a teenager, which makes his performance in Stargate so stunningly authentic.
